What's your favorite sounding rock snare recording?

Wow, thats a great question sure to generate fforum fodder for a long time. Here's my 2 cents:

Alex Van Halen "Outta Love Again" from VH2(?)

Yes, Alan White?, Shoot high , Aim low....Big Generator

I am sure I'm forgetting a lot as we all are, probably.
 
MisterZero said:
Wow, thats a great question sure to generate fforum fodder for a long time. Here's my 2 cents:

Alex Van Halen "Outta Love Again" from VH2(?)

Yes, Alan White?, Shoot high , Aim low....Big Generator

I am sure I'm forgetting a lot as we all are, probably.
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Gotta love that Ludwig sound Alex & Alan's snares sound great but my fav is Poor Tom by Led Zeppelin off the Coda cd and probably Bonzo's Montreux also Duh

Bonzolead
 
TTNW said:
I have a lot of favorites but Mellencamp's Cherry Bomb comes to mind.

Aronoff keeps the tuning medium and nice fat splat on the snares.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGoQNXWgopg
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yes that's a cool snare sound also the thing I didn't. like about the 80's is when it sounded like they put some snare wires under a floor-tom LOL I know they were trying to get a fat sound but to me it sounded like a blah,lifeless snare IMO.

Bonzolead
 
Not really a "rock"-snare, but the SOUND of this snare (not the song) once made me become addicted, and it was the reason why I wanted to learn to play the drums....while the wurlitzer ate all my pocket money, just for to listen to the intro of that song over and over and over.......a friend of mine stil owns a wurlitzer and it is stil unbelieavable how this snare sound rocks the machine, like it was recorded specially for jukeboxes, just to make kids throw in their money...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWaJ0s0-E1o
grin...
besides of the sound, please notice that the whole groove is based on the snare only.
yours
 
Rootheart, that was cool. That used to be my mom's favorite pop song. Now I've heard it in a completely new way.

Here's another one of my favorites. Not necessarily a unique snare sound but really nice.

The first note of the song is a beautiful snare pop. Crisp with a little ring and a little bit hollow but still with a good body. I play this song all the time and it's my starting point sound for when I put a new head on my brass snare.

Robert Cray's - Smoking Gun -

David Olson on drums (I think)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWnoSAPkXQY
 
Does anyone know the snare on 'one headlight'?. . .Its one of those sounds that just bring back a flood of memories. . .
 
Phil Collins made it big because of his snare sound...with his recordings he once created a new standard for snare sound..I suppose those early days, electronic drums have been invented just for the one reason to make Phil´s snare sound available for any drummer, and all the upcoming electronic devices had some kind of competition: which brand offers the best "Phil Collins -snare sound"..this competition is still going on, I guess...
Cool that the accent of this thread is on "recording", cause whatever you hear is all EQs and all that, but never the snare drum.
 
RKTopper said:
Does anyone know the snare on 'one headlight'?. . .Its one of those sounds that just bring back a flood of memories. . .
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Someone said in a prior thread that Matt Chamberlain's snare on that track was a 13" jarrah block snare by Brady. Not sure if that's the case, although you could probably email him and ask him.

I love that song and play it regularly. Try to make it all the way through without going to a crash. Bet you can't. Ha.

I think it may have had some compression, filters, delimiters, gating or other electronic augmentation but hard to say. Very nice snare sound.
 
I love almost all the 70's snare sounds, and may be early 80's as well.
After that all snare sound too tecno or too perfect or something, which doesnt sound real to my ears.

Charley Watts snare sound is special,, however he admits that it is the engineers that make them sound good, which I can relate.

I love the snare sound on Alchemy album by Dire Straits... Terry Williams is the guy who does sit still.
 
MisterZero said:
Alan White?, Shoot high , Aim low....Big Generator

I am sure I'm forgetting a lot as we all are, probably.
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How about Alan White on John Lennons "Instant Karma"? I think Phil Spector produced that one.
 
Have to agree that Bonzo's snare was fabulous throughout Zep's career.

A few other faves:

Bill Bruford - Thela Hun Ginjeet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQOGPCK1WaA

Ringo - Instant Amnesia (off Ringorama)
http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song/Instant_Amnesia/489017.

I'm a Ringo fan but I never knew the old boy had that in him!

Meg White - Icky Thump: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5roz5-wdjBg

Some drummers don't like the primitive drumming in White Stripes music, but Meg's snare is classic rock.
 
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